I was kind of wishing Boo or Nicky were there to throw in a snarky comment about heteronormativity, but it was a fun scene!

Absolutely, I like lots of quote-unquote uncool things in the interest of my own mental health/emotional well-being. It's just not Dashboard, in my case. Different people get different things out of everything!

Yeah, but not everyone is going to like how everyone else creatively expresses the maudlin or sentimentality, either. I'm perfectly capable of having emotions while still finding Dashboard a little overwrought for my pop culture tastes.

I suppose it's a matter of what one does with the earnestness, isn't it? That's what I was trying to get at with my comment, but it seems I didn't elucidate that. My bad!

It's not earnestness in itself that I have an issue with - my favorite band of all time is The Clash, and they were certainly among the most earnest bands of classic British punk - it's that the earnestness paired with the over-the-top sentimentality borders on/veers into the maudlin.

Is The Rest of Us Just Live Here good? I've been tempted to read it but was worried that the concept might be a little precious.

I've tried listening to Dashboard during random fits of nostalgia and really just…can't. It's just really so/too/inconceivably earnest.

I mean…I'm acquainted with at least five guys who either look kind of like Elijah Wood or Daniel Radcliffe, and I've definitely mixed some of them up with each other before.

I haven't watched it in awhile, but the characters are rapidly seeming to be Too Old For This Premise.

To me, the first real bit of geek culture going pretty mainstream seemed to be Adam Brody's character on the OC making Death Cab for Cutie and comics popular with lots of people who might not have liked 'em otherwise? It was in a blessed time before clickbait thinkpieces though so idk if anyone noticed or cared.

Actually, there were a shit-ton of ableist jokes when Raj dated a deaf girl, which made me finally stop watching it as my "need to shut off my brain" show. That was pretty actively mean-spirited and short-sighted. Plus there are random fat jokes scattered in the episodes specifically directed at women soooo yeah.

It damaged my crush on Kat Dennings, but it wasn't a critical hit.

Wouldn't it be great if we lived in a world where Johnny Depp was just actually his character in Benny & Joon forever? I mean, it wouldn't change or impact my life in any way, but it would be nice.

kiiiind of want to make this my new disqus name

I recently re-watched it and enjoyed the anti-censorship subtext. It kind of became its own vehicle of nostalgic sentimentality; the 90s seemed like such comparatively simple times.

The College Years was a whole new world, man. They were standing at the edge of tomorrow.

K but I really want to see all-male Steel Magnolias.

I recently got to the halfway point on my novella and it's like "yes I am working on my novella every day" but by that I mean I've "thought of this idea for a scene" and "re-structured some of the chapter order".

I recall enjoying both X-Men: The Animated Series and reading Preacher at the same time 'cause I was sooooo cooool (I wasn't) (I was 16)

I think I lurked, but didn't participate. I was also impatient and binge-watched it over two or three days.